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- Kentucky Spirit To Terminate Medicaid Contract With State Early; Cabinet Assures Recipients No Interruption In Service
Kentucky Spirit, a Medicaid managed-care provider, will terminate its contract with the state's Cabinet for Health and Family Services a year earlier than scheduled, effective July 5, 2013. The company serves approximately 140,000 Medicaid recipients...
- Most Medicaid Recipients Can Switch Their Managed Care Company From Now Through Oct. 19
Medicaid recipients in 104 counties who want to change who provides their managed care will have an opportunity to do so during open enrollment now through Oct. 19. Letters are being sent out by the Kentucky Department of Medicaid Services to inform...
- Almost $675,000 Awarded To Five Facilities To Improve Health Services, Reduce Disparities
Grants totaling nearly $675,000 will go from the Social Innovation Fund through the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky to help five Kentucky facilities improve access to health services, reduce health risks and disparities and prompt health equality in...
- Bidders To Manage Medicaid Unknown; Contracts July 1?
It is not known who bid on taking over the work, but Kentucky is advancing plans to turn Medicaid over to managed-care organizations. The move, which will allow the organizations to take over the day-to-day operations of Medicaid in the state, is meant...
- Cabinet Seeks Proposals For Managed-care Medicaid Services
Acting on Gov. Steve Beshear's promise to moved to managed care for Medicaid recipients in order to lower costs, implemented by the recent special session of the General Assembly, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is asking organizations...
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Medicaid recipients displaced by tornadoes can get emergency 30-day refills of prescriptions
Kentuckians on Medicaid who were displaced by last week's storms can get a 30-day supply of needed medicine from their pharmacy, the Department of Medicaid Services announced yesterday.
The right to receive an emergency refill applies to residents living in Ballard, Bath, Carroll, Campbell, Grant, Grayson, Hardin, Johnson, Kenton, Laurel, Lawrence, McCracken, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Owsley, Pendleton, Rowan, Russell and Trimble counties. Those counties have declared a state of emergency.
The state's four managed-care organizations are informing pharmacies of the policy, which was part of an executive order signed by Gov. Steve Beshear last weekend. Medicaid recipients who are not enrolled with an MCO can also receive replacement medications at their pharmacy. Co-payments will be waived.
"Many Kentuckians depend on regular maintenance medications, like blood pressure pills, and skipping a few days could cause unnecessary hardship or possible poor health outcomes for some citizens," Beshear said. "This order will allow people to contact a pharmacist to restore their regular medications." (Read more)
- Kentucky Spirit To Terminate Medicaid Contract With State Early; Cabinet Assures Recipients No Interruption In Service
Kentucky Spirit, a Medicaid managed-care provider, will terminate its contract with the state's Cabinet for Health and Family Services a year earlier than scheduled, effective July 5, 2013. The company serves approximately 140,000 Medicaid recipients...
- Most Medicaid Recipients Can Switch Their Managed Care Company From Now Through Oct. 19
Medicaid recipients in 104 counties who want to change who provides their managed care will have an opportunity to do so during open enrollment now through Oct. 19. Letters are being sent out by the Kentucky Department of Medicaid Services to inform...
- Almost $675,000 Awarded To Five Facilities To Improve Health Services, Reduce Disparities
Grants totaling nearly $675,000 will go from the Social Innovation Fund through the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky to help five Kentucky facilities improve access to health services, reduce health risks and disparities and prompt health equality in...
- Bidders To Manage Medicaid Unknown; Contracts July 1?
It is not known who bid on taking over the work, but Kentucky is advancing plans to turn Medicaid over to managed-care organizations. The move, which will allow the organizations to take over the day-to-day operations of Medicaid in the state, is meant...
- Cabinet Seeks Proposals For Managed-care Medicaid Services
Acting on Gov. Steve Beshear's promise to moved to managed care for Medicaid recipients in order to lower costs, implemented by the recent special session of the General Assembly, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is asking organizations...